Relates to requiring certain housing court documents to be provided to parties in their native language and requiring parties to demonstrate their understanding of the nature and effect of such documents.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7968--B
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
June 2, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. JOYNER, RICHARDSON, BLAKE, GOTTFRIED, MILLER,
SIMON, ORTIZ, COOK, PERRY, LINARES -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
BRENNAN, RIVERA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judici-
ary -- recommitted to the Committee on Judiciary in accordance with
Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- again
reported from said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the New York city civil court act, in relation to
requiring the office of court administration to promulgate certain
housing court documents provided to parties in their native language
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 110 of the New York city civil court act is amended
2 by adding a new subdivision (q) to read as follows:
3 (q) (1) The office of court administration shall by rule promulgate a
4 Spanish version of the Notice of Petition and Petition for Nonpayment,
5 and require that it be served together with an English version in all
6 proceedings commenced under section seven hundred thirty-two of the real
7 property actions and proceedings law.
8 (2) The office of court administration shall by rule promulgate a
9 notice to be included in or annexed to all Petitions subject to
10 proceedings commenced under section seven hundred thirty-two of the real
11 property actions and proceedings law, which shall state, in the six most
12 common languages in the city of New York, that the respondent may obtain
13 a copy of the Notice of Petition and Petition form in those six most
14 common languages on the internet website of the office of court adminis-
15 tration, and may call a designated telephone number which will provide
16 information on the court process for eviction in the respondent's native
17 language.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (3) The office of court administration shall by rule revise the text
2 of the postcard currently required to be filed by petitioners in
3 proceedings subject to article seven of the real property actions and
4 proceedings law to include notice in the six most common languages in
5 the city of New York, that the respondent may obtain the Notice of Peti-
6 tion and Petition form in those six most common languages on the inter-
7 net website of the office of court administration, and may call a desig-
8 nated telephone number which will provide information on the court
9 process for eviction in the respondent's native language.
10 (4) The office of court administration shall promulgate notices in the
11 six most common languages in the city of New York to be distributed to
12 litigants in the housing part of the civil court advising them of the
13 right to have all court proceedings and any agreements settling the case
14 interpreted to them orally in their native language.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
16 have become a law.
